“Choose Your Translate Style: Quick or Smart with Google’s New AI!”

This week highlights major AI advancements transforming translation, writing tools, and ethical chatbot interactions:

• Google Translate is rolling out a new AI-powered feature that lets users choose between a fast, basic mode and an advanced mode powered by Gemini AI for more accurate translations. Currently, the advanced option supports only English-Spanish and English-French. The update also features a redesigned interface with improved input options. This suggests a public launch is coming soon.

• Grammarly just upgraded big time! They launched 8 smart AI agents — like AI Grader, Citation Finder, and Plagiarism Checker — plus a fresh Docs interface with better formatting tools. It’s now a full productivity platform for students and pros, available to Free and Pro users, with more coming soon.

• Anthropic updated Claude chatbots to end conversations during persistent abuse or harmful requests, but won’t cut chats in crisis situations. This new “exit” feature aims to protect AI while promoting ethical use.

Together, these breakthroughs showcase how AI is rapidly transforming how we code, learn, and shop, shaping the next era of intelligent, agent-powered experiences.

"Google Translates New AI Switch: Quick or Clever?"

Google is preparing to roll out a new AI-powered update to its Translate app that introduces a model picker, letting users choose between “Fast” mode for quick results and “Advanced” mode powered by Gemini AI for higher contextual accuracy. Currently in testing, the Advanced option is limited to English–Spanish and English–French translations, while Fast mode is aimed at everyday use like menus or signs. The update also comes with a redesigned interface, shifting the microphone button and adding quick-access icons for input methods. Although not officially announced, the feature’s appearance in the latest app build suggests a public launch is near.

Grammarly Evolves: 8 New AI Agents for Smarter Writing

Grammarly has introduced eight specialized AI agents and a redesigned Docs interface, marking its biggest leap yet from grammar checker to productivity platform. The lineup includes tools like AI Grader for feedback and grade prediction, Citation Finder for sourcing references, Reader Reactions to predict audience response, and Expert Review for field-specific guidance. Integrity-focused agents such as AI Detector and Plagiarism Checker ensure authenticity, while the new block-based design—powered by Grammarly’s Coda acquisition—adds tables, columns, and richer formatting. Available now for Free and Pro users, with Enterprise and Education access coming later this year, the update positions Grammarly as an all-in-one AI partner for students and professionals navigating an AI-driven future.

"Claude Now Knows When to Walk Away: Anthropic Adds Exit Feature to Handle Abuse"

Anthropic has added a new safeguard to its Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 chatbots, enabling them to end conversations in cases of persistent abuse or harmful requests. While designed only for rare edge scenarios, Claude can also end chats if users directly request it. Importantly, the feature is disabled in situations involving imminent self-harm or threats to others. Anthropic says the update is part of its broader exploration into AI welfare and the ethical treatment of advanced language models.

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Top AI Products from this week

• April (YC S25) – April is a voice AI assistant that manages email and calendars hands-free, helping busy professionals summarize, reply, declutter inboxes, and stay on top of schedules on the go.

• GPT Burger – A lightweight Chrome extension that lets you instantly tag, organize, and jump back to ChatGPT responses. With color-coded tags, drag-and-drop sorting, quick copy, and export options, it makes saving and reusing AI outputs fast and effortless.

• AI Transcribe – A smart speech-to-text tool that goes beyond basic transcription. It delivers high accuracy with custom post-processing, then transforms notes into mindmaps, flashcards, and even lets you chat with them. Built for students and professionals, it’s powerful, affordable, and designed to make learning and meetings effortless.

• Talk to Day (Dai) – An AI-powered platform to learn any language or dialect through natural, humanlike conversations. Instead of flashcards or gamified lessons, it helps you practice real dialogue—making language learning more immersive, fun, and effective.

• Fume – Your AI-powered QA team. Simply record a Loom (or any walkthrough video), and Fume turns it into a full Playwright test suite. Tests run automatically twice a day on the cloud, stay updated even after major UI changes, and plug right into your CI/CD. No setup, no vendor lock-in—just effortless, always-maintained browser testing.

• Chord Mini – An open-source AI tool for musicians. It uses deep learning and LLMs to deliver chord recognition, guitar chord diagrams, beat tracking, and synchronized chord progression visualizations. Works with YouTube links or direct audio uploads—making music analysis interactive and accessible for everyone.

This week in AI

• Sam Altman signaled OpenAI’s shift beyond GPT-5, with new consumer apps in the pipeline under incoming exec Fidji Simo — including an AI browser and potential social platform. He even hinted at interest in Chrome if it were ever up for sale.

• OpenAI has launched a new ChatGPT Go plan in India at ₹399 ($4.60) per month, making it far cheaper than the ₹1,999 Plus plan. The plan offers 10x higher limits than the free tier, improved memory for personalization, and supports UPI payments. OpenAI says it will expand Go to more regions after testing in India, its second-largest market with over 29M downloads in the last 90 days.

• xAI’s Grok chatbot prompts leaked, exposing personas like a “crazy conspiracist” and “unhinged comedian” alongside tamer roles. The leak raises fresh concerns over safety, following Grok’s history of pushing conspiracies and offensive content.

• Oracle has deployed GPT-5 into its databases and cloud apps, including Fusion, NetSuite, and Oracle Health, enabling advanced reasoning, automation, and code generation to drive productivity and deeper business insights.

• DeepSeek 81% of UK CISOs are demanding urgent government regulation of the Chinese AI tool, warning it could fuel cyberattacks and data exposure. Many firms have already banned AI tools, with leaders stressing that only national oversight can close the rising security gap.

Paper of The Day

Researchers propose TGMM, a multimodal AI framework that combines lab results, ECGs, and echocardiograms for comprehensive cardiac analysis. Using a novel fusion method and textual guidance, TGMM outperforms existing models in diagnosis (AUC 0.91) and prognosis, while also showing strong generalization across datasets. The framework highlights explainability and robustness, making it a promising step toward AI-driven clinical decision support.

To read the whole paper, go to here.